Dan
Allen was bred and raised at Confederate Hills Farm, Billy Taylor's
Winchester, Tennessee home. He was a son of
Paige's Echo, whose story is quite
unique. As told by Diane Sczepanski of
Northern Foundations Farm,
Paige's
Echo was bred by Danny and Billy Taylor's
father and was sold to J.W. Sanders in 1967. Sanders
was not a horse person but liked the big horse and
kept him as a pet. Echo was never gelded but he never
served a registered walking mare. The opportunity came
for the Taylor brothers to acquire Echo and return him
to his home farm at 27 years of age. In 1993, his
first registered Walking Horse foal hit the ground.
The foals of Echo were attractive horses with plenty
of natural walk and people oriented dispositions. Society's Dan Allen is one of Paige's Echo's sons, tracing back to the rare Red Eagle F-61, this non-Allen line offers genetic diversity and hybrid vigor. Paige's Echo's dam, Pinky Lu, was sired by Wilson's Merry Boy GG, blending the famed Merry Boy line with a full sister to Miller's Wilson Allen, one of the nation's leading sires of flat-shod show walkers in the late forties. Duke's dam was sired by Red Bud's Rascal, Leon Oliver's popular breeding stallion (now deceased). Duke's sire, Paige's Echo, had eight foundation "F" horses on his papers. These are true Heritage Horses. Society's Dan Allen stood at Confederate Hills Farm until his death in 2013. He sired 60 registered foals.
NOTABLE OFFSPRING
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